Title print with Hercules and Personification of History, Pieter de Jode (II), After Erasmus Quellinus (II), c. 1650 print Title print entitled in Latin on a piercing stable, flanked by the personification of history and Hercules. Above the Pieth stable a globe with trumpets, sword and a belt. In a cartouche under the Pieth stable a medallion with Zeus and Europe. Title print for a series with portraits. Antwerp paper engraving / etching (story of) Hercules (Heracles). 'Historia'; 'Historia' (Ripa). Jupiter, usually in the shape of a white bull, abducts Europa and carries her across the water
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